To meet the challenges of the tower project, Turner used LEAN scheduling and principles, building-information modeling and integrated project delivery with its subcontractors and design team. Among the obstacles it faced was a “no-excuses” deadline, the need to get the tower occupied as soon as possible, and the unrelenting winters in western North Carolina. The hotel is just a portion of the $633 million expansion program going on at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino and Hotel. The winning general contractor effort was a 21-story, 532-room, 459,509-square-foot hotel tower that included 78 suites, 454 guest rooms and a sky bridge connecting it to two existing hotel towers. Turner, a national construction company that has Carolina offices in Charlotte, Raleigh and Charleston, began construction on this $120 million hotel in July 2009. won the 2011 GC Project of the Year recently in the 2011 Excellence in Construction Awards competition presented by The Associated Builders and Contractors of the Carolinas (ABCC). But that is just part of the reason why Turner Construction Co. Especially when that allowed the project, a new tower at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino and Hotel, to open in time for the profitable New Year’s Day holiday.
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